See the website below for the talk by Richard Heinberg at the Soil Association's annual Eve Balfour Lecture on 22 November 2007 discussing the impact that oil peaking will have on food production and action that we need to take.
Green Lib Dems are celebrating the arrival of People Power this month following the news that the Sustainable Communities Bill has become law after 5 years of mass meetings and lobbying up and across the country.
The CO2 reduction and renewable energy targets put forward by the Commission on 23 January have evoked, according to EurActiv, a flood of reactions from member states, industry, NGOs and other stakeholders. Below follows an overview from EurActiv:
A threat to specialist lifeboat equipment has taken a step towards being lifted after a unanimous vote by members of the European Parliament's environment committee.
Reference: IP/08/80 Date: 23/01/2008 IP/08/80
At a meeting in the European Parliament, Brussels, 28 November 2007, EU -MENA released details of the most positive, realistic, technological answer to our energy needs. The findings by DESERTEC demonstrate that the west can draw its current energy requirements from an energy grid stretching from Iceland to the Sahara, harnessing geothermal energy, wave power, wind power, solar voltaic cells, and solar parabolic troughs.
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